§ Statement of Purpose

The View from 1776 presents a framework to understand present-day issues from the viewpoint of the colonists who fought for American independence in 1776 and wrote the Constitution in 1787. Knowing and preserving those understandings, what might be called the unwritten constitution of our nation, is vital to preserving constitutional government. Without them, the bare words of the Constitution are just a Rorschach ink-blot that politicians, educators, and judges can interpret to mean anything they wish.

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Apologies for Unexpected Page Rendering

Viewers have informed me that, in Internet Explorer for Windows (at least one of the versions), the text for postings is centered, rather than left-justified.

They also tell me that this problem doesn’t occur in Opera, another Windows browser.

Nor does it occur on my Macintosh in Internet Explorer, Safari, OmniWeb, Firefox, or Camino.

If you notice other problems with rendering of the web pages, it will be helpful if you can email a description to me, together with what operating system and browser you are using and the versions thereof.

In any case, I am struggling to discover a CSS coding work-around to deal with Microsoft’s quirks. In the meantime, please accept my apologies.